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0. D. SWARTZ. WALL PAPER EXHIBITOR.

No. 452,998. P91en1e11111a1y19,1891.

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O. D. SWARTZ. WALL PAPER EXHIBITOR.

No. 452,398. Patented May 19,1891.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.,

OSCAR SVARTZ, OF YORK, NEBRASKA.

vWALL-PAPER EXHIBITOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 452,398, dated May 19, 1891.

Application filed July 22, 1890. Serial No. 359,540. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, OscAR D. SWARTZ, a citizen of the United States, residing at York, in the county of York and State of Nebraska, have invented a neW and useful Tall-Paper Exhibitor, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has relationto a wall-paper exhibitor; and the objects of the invention are to provide a device of the above class adapted to removably receive a number of samples of Wall-paper of suitable size and of various designs and to automatically exhibit each sample, the exhibition of the sample being of a sufficient length of time topermit it being carefully examined previous to the arrival in View of the next succeeding sample.

Various other minor objects of the invention will hereinafter appear, and the novel features thereof will be particularly pointed out in the claims.

Referring to the drawings, Figure l is a perspective of an exhibitor constructed in accordance With my invention, the same being connected to a motor of any ordinary construction for operating said exhibitor. Fig. 2 is a transverse section of the exhibitor. Fig. 3 is a perspective of the exhibiting-reel, Fig. et is a detail in perspective of one of the paperclamping bars. Fig. 5 is a similar view of one of the clamping-bar-receiving slides.

Like numerals of reference indicate like parts in all the figures of the drawings.

In practicing my invention I employ a pair of opposite suitable standards l ofinvertedshape, Which are connected near their lower ends by suitable tie-bars 2. In the upper ends of the standards are formed open boxes or bearings 3, and in the same is removably mounted the transverse shaft 4 of the exhibitin g-reel. The exhibiting-reel comprises opposite open heads or cylinders 5, which at in'- tervals have secured to their peripheries transverse clamping-bar-receiving guides 6. The guides G are preferably formed of sheet metal and have their inner upper edges inwardly turned, as shown, and are for the purpose of receiving the clamping-bars 7. The clamping-bars 7, like the guides 6,are formed of sheet metal, and have their opposite edges overlapped upon the blank, and under said main shaft of which extends through the cas-` ing of theV motor and terminates in a square tenon 1l, which takes into a socket 12 of corresponding shape, in which t-he adjacent end of the shaft 4 terminates beyond one end of the standard l.

The motor, as before stated, may be of any suitable construction, and may be operated either by spring or Weight or other power, it simply being desirable to have the same operate the reel in the direction indicated by the arrows. i

ln operation the reel slowly revolves, as indicated, and the samples drop automatically to a vertical position forinspection afterhaving reached a certain point, and previous to that time lie with their rear side to the front and back upon the top of the reel, out of View and out of the Way, so that they do not obstruct a full View of the pattern of the preceding sample.

The motor is provided with the usual stopping and starting devices, so that the exhibitor may be arrested in its movement and exhibit for any length of time anyone sample that may attract the eye or fancy of a proposed purchaser.

It will be observed that in lieu of ing the device as a wall-paper exhibitor the same maybe used as an advertising medium, and individual advertisements or a series of advertisements occupy each sheet.

Having thus described my invention, what l claim isl. The combination., with a wall-paper exhibitor, the same comprising opposite in.- verted-V-shaped standards,oneof whichis provided With an open bearing, and a reel adapted to contain the samples and having its shaft removably mounted in the standards and terminating at one side of one of the same in a square socket, of a spring-motor arranged at employ- IOO ing their opposite edges inwnrdlyturnetl and adapted to/he longitudinally inserted into the guides, substantially as speeied.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as that side of the reel :wel having its driveshnft terminating in n tenon and tilting the sockel', and a shelf projecting from one of the standards and supporting motor, snbstnir presence of two witnesses. l

OSCAR D. SWARTZ.

2. In :i Wall-paper exhibitor, the combination, with the opposite wheels and the series of connecting` sheet-metal guides having opposite inwardly-turned flanges, of the series 1o of removable clamping Sheet-metal harsherl l i 5 tially as specified. my own Ihzwe hereto affixed my signature in I5 Witnesses:

W. C. NEUMAN, J. L. SrooNEn. 

